Hey everyone,
I thought I’d mention this as I found it interesting. Last October my Heliamphora minor var. pilosa started putting up a couple of flower stalks.
In early December I harvested the pollen from the first (of four) flowers. I later used this pollen on the other three flowers as they opened.
To my surprise, the seed pod on the first flower that I harvested pollen from also started inflating, and like the other flowers eventually produced (not much) but some seed!
I thought it might be sterile or whatever because the stigma isn’t supposed to stay receptive for long, but this morning I noticed that one of the seeds from that first flower is germinating! Has anyone had that happen?
So in short- I unintentionally pollinated a Heliamphora stigma with pollen from the same flower and seed germinated from that batch! (No other Heli’s in flower at the time)
Anyways, hope everyone’s taking care out there!
I thought I’d mention this as I found it interesting. Last October my Heliamphora minor var. pilosa started putting up a couple of flower stalks.
In early December I harvested the pollen from the first (of four) flowers. I later used this pollen on the other three flowers as they opened.
To my surprise, the seed pod on the first flower that I harvested pollen from also started inflating, and like the other flowers eventually produced (not much) but some seed!
I thought it might be sterile or whatever because the stigma isn’t supposed to stay receptive for long, but this morning I noticed that one of the seeds from that first flower is germinating! Has anyone had that happen?
So in short- I unintentionally pollinated a Heliamphora stigma with pollen from the same flower and seed germinated from that batch! (No other Heli’s in flower at the time)
Anyways, hope everyone’s taking care out there!